Vicente Perez Rosales

Vicente Perez Rosales (5 April 1807-6 September 1886) was a Chilean politician and diplomat who oversaw the colonization of the Llanquihue region by German and white Chilean settlers.

Biography
Vicente Perez Rosales was born in Santiago, Chile, Spanish Empire in 1807, and he studied in Paris and travelled to California during the Gold Rush in 1848. In 1849, after returning to Chile, he masterminded the colonization of the Llanquihue region by white settlers, with most of the settlers being German immigrants (40,000 of them). In 1858, he served as consul in Hamburg, and he served as Mayor of Concepcion from 1859 to 1863, a deputy for Chillan from 1861 to 1864, and a Senator for Llanquihue from 1876 to 1881. He died in 1886.